It is 1868, and a twenty-one-year-old Bram Stoker waits in a desolate tower to face an indescribable evil. Armed only with crucifixes, holy water, and a rifle, he prays to survive a single night, the longest of his life...

In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands..

Poetry. Horror. "I will do such things," King Lear shouts before the storm, "What they are, yet I know not: but they shall be / The terrors of the earth." ...

Seven linked vignettes unfold on a Scandinavian island inhabited--throughout various time periods--by Vikings, vampires, ghosts, and a curiously powerful plant...

How can calculus help you survive the zombie apocalypse?...

The witch came to prominence;and often a painful death;in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep..

Due takes us to Gracetown, a small Florida town that has both literal and figurative ghosts; into future scenarios that seem all too real; and provides empathetic portraits of those whose lives are touched by Otherness...

Dickey, piqued by a house hunt in Los Angeles that revealed derelict foreclosures and "zombie houses", embarks on a journey across the continental United States to decode and unpack the American history repressed in our most famous haunted places...

Alan Ball's adaptation of The Southern Vampire Mysteries by Charlaine Harris has exploited the creative freedoms of the HBO brand and captured a cult audience with its passionate, blood-drenched visuals and stories...

Over one hundred years ago, the writer Lafcadio Hearn gathered and translated into English a selection of traditional Japanese ghost/mystery stories. They were published as Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things...

In this program, Ian Nathan, author of “Stephen King at the Movies”, Neil Norman, film critic and writer, Stephen Armstrong, writer and film critic of The Sunday Times, and Bonnie Greer OBE, writer and critic, discuss and review their top 20 horror films of the last 100 years. Films discussed include NOSFERATU, PSYCHO, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, THE EXORCIST, FRANKENSTEIN, THE OMEN, CARRIE, and others.

Filmed in Gothic monochrome and recited in lively fashion by British actor Joss Ackland, Edgar Allan Poe’s classic short story of premeditated evil comes alive in this engaging program. Supplementing the dramatization, writer and film director Neil Jordan discusses the story’s powerful imagery, particularly that of the eye and the heartbeat, along with Poe’s lasting influence. (25 minutes)

A masterpiece of psychological horror and the film that has come to epitomize the mysterious highly stylized German Expressionist cinema. A demented hypnotist and his ghastly henchman spread death througout the German countryside. Newly remastered from the archival German material and tinted according to original instructions with evocative score.

In 1968, a young college dropout named George A. Romero directed Night of the Living Dead, a low-budget horror film that shocked the world, became an icon of the counterculture, and spawned a zombie industry worth billions of dollars that continues to this day. Birth of the Living Dead shows how Romero gathered an unlikely team of Pittsburghers, policemen, iron workers, teachers, ad men, housewives, and a roller rink owner to shoot a revolutionary guerrilla-style film that went on to become a cinematic landmark, offering a profound insight into how our society worked in a singular time in American history.

A simple, peaceful countryside is being terrorized by killer zombies with only one thing on their minds--destroy all humans. A small stronghold of survivors must hold the zombies at bay outside an old, abandoned house for any future hope of humanity.